Pop_Art

Andy Warhol’s Pop Art: 

Andy Warhol’s Pop Art "An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them." -- Andy Warhol

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The Pop artists moved AWAY from Abstract Expressionism which was the “in” style of art in the 50s. Line Color Form Texture Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1950 Carnegie Museum of Art; Gift of Frank R. S. Kaplan/  ARS

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“Pop Artists did images that anybody walking down the street could recognize in a split second…all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.” Gretchen Berg. Three Coke Bottles, 1962,  AWF

Pop Art: 

Pop Art late 1950s and 1960s everyday life and common objects fine art and commercial art Brillo Soap Pads Box , 1964,  AWF

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Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiec e, 1962

Pop Artists used bold, flat colors and hard edge compositions adopted from commercial designs like those found in:: 

Pop Artists used bold, flat colors and hard edge compositions adopted from commercial designs like those found in: Billboards Murals Magazines Newspapers Campbell's Soup II, 1969,  AWF

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N ew technologies and methods: Mass production Fabrication Photography Printing Serials Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962,  Claes Oldenburg

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Made fun of common people and their lives Cheap, everyday objects, uphold and represent culture’s most valuable ideals. Listerine Bottle , 1963,  AWF

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Photographic Silk-Screening Repetition Mass production Collaboration Media events Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe Photographic Silk -Screening,

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Silver Liz [Ferus Type], 1963,  AWF ©2006 Life Inc.

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Jackie paintings, 1964,  AWF

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Knives , 1981,  AWF What makes one work of art better than another? Brillo Soap Pads Box , 1964,  AWF

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"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." --- Andy Warhol photo by Hervé Gloaguen

The art world today reflects many of the ideas, methods and materials initiated by the Pop Art movement. : 

The art world today reflects many of the ideas, methods and materials initiated by the Pop Art movement. Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991 Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, NY In Untitled , 1991, Barbara Kruger uses the iconography of the American flag and hard edge graphics to pose a series of provocative questions about American cultural values.